It Was Removed, But Always Returned To The Same Spot;
And When His Master's Body Was Huddled, With The Other Corpses, Into The Cart,
The Little Dog Jumped In After Him, And Lying Again On His Dead Master's
Breast, Began Howling Again.
- - Was dead there also, and - - , who escaped,
had said, that when he offered his sword, he was shot in the side
by a trooper, as he was lying on the ground wounded.
He expired
almost immediately. Another was lying dead just inside the barricade,
where he seemed to have crawled. Some of the bodies might have been removed -
I counted fifteen. A poor woman and her children were standing outside a tent;
she said that the troopers had surrounded the tent and pierced it
with their swords. She, her husband, and children, were ordered out
by the troopers, and were inspected in their night-clothes outside,
whilst the troopers searched the tent. Mr. Haslam was roused from sleep
by a volley of bullets fired through his tent; he rushed out, and was shot down
by a trooper, and handcuffed. He lay there for two hours bleeding
from a wound in his breast, until his friends sent for a black-smith,
who forced off the handcuffs with a hammer and cold chisel. When I last heard
of Mr. Haslam, a surgeon was attending him, and probing for the ball.
R - - , from Canada, [Captain Ross, of Toronto, once my mate] escaped
the carnage; but is dead since, from the wounds.
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